Name Sorcerer's Apprentice Hook Mustad 80500 BL Size 2/0 Working Thread White 8/0 Tag Gold Tinsel (Small) & Fl Red Floss Butt Black Ostrich Herl Tail Red over Yellow Hackle Barbs Body First Half; HareLine Pearl Flat Diamond Braid, Second Half; HareLine Peacock Black Ice Dub Underwing Yellow Calftail accented with Peacock Black Mirror Flash 1/100 Collar(s) Light KF Blue Schlappen under Hot Orange Schlappen Wing Natural Grey Squirrel Head Danville 6/0 Unwaxed Fl/Fire Orange Thread

This fly was tied by contributing tyer, Scott Howell. You can see more of his flies at The Flies of Scott Howell. See his notes below.

SCOTT'S NOTES: The Sorcerer's Apprentice is one of my very first attempts in dressing an "Atlantic" style modern hairwing Salmon Fly. The inspiration behind this tie was the gorgeous work found in Erling Olsen's book, "Hairwing Flies for Salmon and Sea Trout" and the myriad of wonderful patterns in "Flies for Atlantic Salmon" by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen.